You Are Puppet And God (a Poem)

[Flow With Life]

Puppet Gods

As Ocean flows, Wave follows.

As Wave flows, Ocean follows.

Simply, they are one flowing.

 

As World changes, you react.

As you react, World changes.

Simply, they are one flowing.

 

As World changes, you react.

No choice is independent,

all choices are conditioned.

You are mere puppet of World.

 

As puppet of World,

you wield no freedom.

Understanding this,

one gives up control.

Giving up control,

one just flows with World.

Not upstream, but down.

Just flowing with World,

one finds true freedom.

 

Others, too: puppets.

As puppets of World,

they wield no freedom.

Understanding this,

one sees them blameless.

Seeing them blameless,

one dwells not in hate,

but in compassion.

 

As you react, World changes.

No event is secluded;

all events are connected.

You are the source of all change.

 

As source of all change,

all is your doing.

Understanding this,

one accepts duty.

Accepting duty,

one takes swift action,

planting seeds of change.

Taking swift action,

one finds true courage.

 

Others, too, are Gods,

though they may not know.

Understanding this,

one does not lay blame,

but accepts duty.

Accepting duty,

one teaches others

of their potential.

 

Wave and Ocean, Self and World,

simply, they are one flowing.

The whole conditions the part;

the part conditions the whole.

 

If you can understand this,

you are both puppet and God.

 

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This poem is my attempt at reconciling two worldviews that resonated with me, but seemed contradictory: (a) I have no free will, and (b) I must accept total responsibility for my life (i.e. "Thou Art God"). By accepting that one is a mere puppet of the World, one stops resisting the flow of life, always trying to control everything. By accepting total responsibility for one's life, one stops playing the victim, always feeling that life is unfair while doing nothing to change it. Once one realizes that everything is interconnected, the two views are two sides of one coin!

[Bodhi123]

10 hours ago, Flow With Life said:

Giving up control,

one just flows with World.

Not upstream, but down.

Just flowing with World,

one finds true freedom.

This is the truth. But damn... it is a hard-won truth.

[Empty]

@Flow With Life Great poem

Edited January 28, 2017 by Empty

[Leo Gura]

@Flow With Life Now that's Big nonduality. Good work, grasshopper!

[cirkussmile]

Fantastic poem! 

Thank you for sharing. Much love.

[Live Life Liam]

On 27/01/2017 at 5:12 PM, Flow With Life said:

Puppet Gods

As Ocean flows, Wave follows.

As Wave flows, Ocean follows.

Simply, they are one flowing.

 

As World changes, you react.

As you react, World changes.

Simply, they are one flowing.

 

As World changes, you react.

No choice is independent,

all choices are conditioned.

You are mere puppet of World.

 

As puppet of World,

you wield no freedom.

Understanding this,

one gives up control.

Giving up control,

one just flows with World.

Not upstream, but down.

Just flowing with World,

one finds true freedom.

 

Others, too: puppets.

As puppets of World,

they wield no freedom.

Understanding this,

one sees them blameless.

Seeing them blameless,

one dwells not in hate,

but in compassion.

 

As you react, World changes.

No event is secluded;

all events are connected.

You are the source of all change.

 

As source of all change,

all is your doing.

Understanding this,

one accepts duty.

Accepting duty,

one takes swift action,

planting seeds of change.

Taking swift action,

one finds true courage.

 

Others, too, are Gods,

though they may not know.

Understanding this,

one does not lay blame,

but accepts duty.

Accepting duty,

one teaches others

of their potential.

 

Wave and Ocean, Self and World,

simply, they are one flowing.

The whole conditions the part;

the part conditions the whole.

 

If you can understand this,

you are both puppet and God.

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

This poem is my attempt at reconciling two worldviews that resonated with me, but seemed contradictory: (a) I have no free will, and (b) I must accept total responsibility for my life (i.e. "Thou Art God"). By accepting that one is a mere puppet of the World, one stops resisting the flow of life, always trying to control everything. By accepting total responsibility for one's life, one stops playing the victim, always feeling that life is unfair while doing nothing to change it. Once one realizes that everything is interconnected, the two views are two sides of one coin!

Brilliantly said & written <3